By: Stacy Chandna, MS, CIP The evidence is clear. Engaging in healthy eating and exercise is vital to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. And there’s no better time to start creating healthy habits than in the earliest years of children’s lives. Since launching our program two years ago, Kohl’s […]
By: Nancy Trout, MD, MPH The benefits of teaching children to grow their own food from a young age are well known, which is why the Kohl’s Start Childhood Off Right (SCOR) program launched a new community gardening project over the summer. SCOR, which is part of Connecticut […]
Childhood obesity is a serious health problem, and rates continue to climb. Even heavy infants and toddlers are at risk of carrying their obesity into later childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Since treatment of children and adolescents with obesity is challenging and often ends in failure, prevention is the […]
By: Nancy Trout, MD, MPH Electronic media has assumed a ubiquitous role in our lives, with both positive and negative effects. Screen time has expanded to include television, computers, video games, phones, and tablets. Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued Guidelines on Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior and […]
By: Nancy Trout, MD, MPH I recently read an alarming statistic in a pediatric news article: over 90 percent of parents surveyed purchase at least one meal per week for their children in a fast food establishment. Admittedly, fast food is a low cost, convenient and readily available […]
By: Nancy Trout, MD, MPH Physicians have long encouraged people of all ages to remain physically active and now new federal guidelines, as well as a new study published in the journal Pediatrics, provide further motivation for children and families to get moving. Last month, the U.S. Department […]
By: Nancy Trout, MD, MPH As a component of the Kohl’s Start Childhood Off Right (SCOR) program, we include playing with young infants and toddlers and encouraging physical activity as part of a comprehensive obesity prevention strategy. Coupled with breastfeeding promotion and the healthy introduction of complementary foods […]
By: Nancy Trout, MD, MPH The United States delegation to the United Nations World Health Assembly recently shocked the public health sector (and much of the world) by seeking to water down a resolution that called for governments to “protect, promote and support breastfeeding” and to restrict misleading […]
